Ok ok, I’m going to blog this. Not because I like Jay-Z. I don’t. I don’t think Radiohead makes Jay-Z listenable. But the mash-up of Paranoid Android and Dirt Off Your Shoulder on this album completely ROCKS (and won’t leave my head).
Check it, yo.
‘Tis the season for snooker. A time when all and sundry immerse themselves in incomprehensible commentary and John Virgo’s ability to state the obvious while simultaneously replacing all adverbs with adjectives.
People (is it an American thing?) pluralising ‘Lego’.
I built a functioning harpsichord from legos.
No.
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
-Arthur C. Clarke
I found this wonderful little tumblr blog yesterday. The (New) Daily Mail Oncological Ontology Project
An ongoing quest to track the Daily Mail’s classification of inanimate objects into two types: those that cause cancer, and those that cure it.
Also, by the same dude, The Daily Mail-o-matic - Daily Mail headline generator.
The Guardian
Some of those arrested were seen taking photographs near a Manchester nightclub, the Birdcage, and the Trafford shopping centre. The suspects were also seen taking photographs near other places in and around Manchester which are usually crowded.
The source said the suspect’s behaviour was consistent with the way terrorists carry out reconnaissance ahead of an […]
This is so sad. Video reveals police assault on man who died.
I’m not feeling too well today and this has totally turned my stomach.
The police statement doesn’t mention the attack, only saying that protesters were throwing things at paramedics. Of course they were. It’s a good thing we’re allowed to video and photograph things […]
I posted a remixed version of the new fear-mongering anti-terror posters a couple of weeks ago.
Well, I just came across this real life subversion. I like.
I’m (slowly) beginning to make my way through The Sceptical Chymist by Robert Boyle.
This book essentially dragged chemistry out of alchemy and turned it into a science. The origin of modern chemistry. I feel like I should give it a read.